Listening in on Fiona's phone call with Joshua, Luna understood why Arianna would be burned.
Obviously, Zayne must have disobeyed her and secretly discussed his plan of chasing Fiona away with Arianna and Samson. However, their discussion was overheard by Fiona.
Samson and Zayne were both men, taking action against them would be difficult, even if she did, the effect would not be obvious.
But Arianna was different.
Arianna was the only girl amongst the three of them and both Zayne and Samson had a small crush on her. Targeting Arianna would hurt all three of them.
Hitting where it hurts most. Fiona was much smarter than she imagined.
Within three minutes after Fiona ended the call, the door to the design department was pushed open.
Joshua walked in anxiously, strode toward Fiona and studied her carefully from head to toe. After ensuring only her chest area had been splashed with the hot coffee, he heaved a slight sigh of relief, then raised his eyes and glanced at her. "What actually happened?"
Fiona bit her lip, glanced at Luna carefully, then said i n a stutter, "Maybe...maybe people don't like me. I just reported for work at the design department for less
than a day, and already Ms. Luna's three assistants hate me so much that they secretly discussed how to chase me out of the company... I know I can't do much, I’m only here on your authority, Joshua, that's why I wanted to do something for my colleagues, so they won't think I came here during my time away."
She sniffed as she spoke, sounding slightly nasally. "I was sending Shannon's coffee to her just now. Maybe I was too nervous, I was shocked by the noise Arianna made, so I lost my grip and all the coffee splashed out ..." She lowered her head, her voice full of despair. "I really can't do anything well..." Fiona's words lifted the blame from Arianna entirely.
Beside them, a female colleague could not take it anymore. She stood up with a scrap of her chair. "Ms. Blake, as the President’s girlfriend, I know you don’t want to cause trouble and make things difficult for him. But even so, you can't take the entire blame for the incident yourself! It was obvious Arianna purposely made that sound when you were passing by to scare you, how can you say you lost your grip because you were griping?"
Once she spoke, another male colleague hastily voiced his agreement. "Exactly! I was busy drafting my design when the sound Arianna made was so loud that she interrupted my train of thought too! She did it on purpose!"
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